But Self-satisfaction, If As Buoyant As Gas,

The Pleasure Of Possession, Whether We Possess Trinkets, Or Offspring - Or Possibly Books, Or Prints, Or Chessmen, Or Postage Stamps - Lies In Showing These Things To Friends Who Are Experiencing No Immediate Urge To Look At Them.

The Most Charming Thing About Youth Is The Tenacity Of Its Impressions.

To Have Given Pleasure To One Human Being Is A Recollection That Sweetens Life.

The Clear-sighted Do Not Rule The World, But They Sustain And Console It.

Sensuality, Too, Which Used To Show Itself Course, Smiling, Unmasked, And Unmistakable, Is Now Serious, Analytic, And So Burdened With A Sense Of Its Responsibilities That It Passes Muster Half The Time As A New Type Of Asceticism.